Steelers rookie running back Najee Harris commanded a significant portion of the "Monday Night Football" broadcast early in the Steelers-Bears game, though not nece sarily for his on-field exploits.Much of the discu sion between Steve Levy, Louis Riddick and Brian Griese in the booth centered on Harris' childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he and his family occasionally dealt with homele sne s
Andrew Miller Jersey before he went onto stardom at Antioch (Calif.) High School and, later, the University of Alabama.MORE: Levy also mentioned during the broadcast that Harris slept
Corey Kluber Jersey on the floor of his dormitory in his first few months at Alabama, as it was something he had gotten used to growing up. Indeed, articles from the and indicate that Harris did sleep on the floor during his childhood.Najee Harris basically saying the crew made this whole thing up lmaooo Chris Williamson (@CWilliamson44) But Harris, in a tweet sent after the Steelers' 29-27 victory on Monday, denied ever having slept on the floor while at Alabama:Bra I aint sleep on no dam floor in college. I slept on
Mike Napoli Jersey my bed Najee Harris (@ohthatsNajee22) MORE: It appears Levy got his Alabama players mixed up: Josh Jacobs, a former Crimson Tide running back who also dealt with homele sne s in Oklahoma, actually did sleep on the floor during his first few months at Alabama.An excerpt from a by Adam Kramer matches Levy's on-air report:"When he arrived at Alabama, Josh Jacobs spent his first few months sleeping on the floor in his dorm room. Not because he didn't have a bed. But because after years of sleeping on couches, on motel floors and in the back seat of his father's
Cody Allen Jersey maroon Chevy Suburban, he was more comfortable there."MORE: ESPN's decision to focus on Harris early in its "MNF" broadcast coincides with an detailing the help he and his family have given to the Greater Richmond (Calif.) Interfaith Program, one of several homele s shelters they stayed at during his childhood.Harris' story has been well documented, including the fact he hosted his draft-day party at the same homele s shelter. That said, it
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Jason Garrett was a familiar face on Thanksgiving Day television screens for a long time, but in 2020, he'll be nowhere to be found
Mike Gerber Jersey .That's because the Cowboys moved on from Jason Garrett in favor of Mike McCarthy for the 2020 season. Dallas' meeting with the Washington Football Team for first place in the NFC East will happen without Garrett on the sideline. He's involved in that divisional race, too, now as the offensive coordinator for the New York Giants. And who knows, maybe the division will come down to a Week 17 meeting between the Cowboys and Giants, a revenge game for Garrett after Dallas beat
Mauricio Dubon Jersey New York 37-34 earlier in 2020.Here's a look at how Garrett wound up with the Giants after more than a decade as a coach in Dallas.Is Jason Garrett coaching this year?Yes, Jason Garrett is the New York Giants' offensive coordinator in 2020.It's the first coordinator role Garrett has held since 2010 in Dallas. It's been a struggle of a season for the New York offense, although how much of that can be pinned on Garrett is debatable. Second-year quarterback Daniel Jones has been inconsistent, while star running back Saquon Barkley has mi sed most of the year with injury as the pa s-catchers have been dinged-up, too
Brandon Belt Jersey .Through 11 weeks of the 2020 season, the Giants have the third-lowest yardage and point totals in the NFL. The bigger struggle has been pa sing the football, as even mostly without Barkley, the Giants rank 18th (out of 32) in the league in rushing yards. that Garrett's tenure as offensive coordinator in New York could conclude as soon as the end of the 2020 season, writing that "a new offensive coordinator next season would not surprise several sources who know (Giants head coach Joe) Judge well."Why did the Cowboys fire Jason Garrett?Garrett and the Cowboys agreed to part ways in January 2020 after Garrett's 10th season as the head coach in Dallas. There hadn't been any deep playoff runs that owner Jerry Jones was likely hoping for.There was only one losing season in Dallas for Garrett, a 2015 in which Tony Romo's injury derailed the Cowboys. But a 2-3 record in the postseason wasn't good enough to extend
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Kyler Murray has done plenty well in sparking the Cardinals'quick turnaround into an NFC playoff team. Although his losing postseason debut in Monday's wild-card game at the division rival Rams was mostly a disaster, he still carries a lot of dual-threat upside as a two-time Pro Bowler who just finished Year 3 as a 24-year-old.But after looking at everything that went wrong for Murray against a tough defense in the biggest game of his career thus far, coach Kliff Kingsbury and the rest of the Arizona bra s have a big job ahead: putting the right pieces in place around their franchise QB to get the most out of him.Murray (19-of-34
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Billy Williams Jersey monster games in the first half of the season, when the Cardinals started 7-0. He mi sed three games with an ankle injury in November, and after that the downfield game dwindled without Hopkins.MORE: Hopkins is coming off a big knee injury ahead of his Age 30 season. Green (33) and Ertz (31) are pending unrestricted free agents along with running backs Conner andEdmonds, wide receiver Christian Kirk, tight end Maxx Williams, guard Max Garcia and backup QB Colt McCoy.The Cardinals have a chance to overhaul the skill positions and infuse them with youth around Murray. The best bet for keepers are Conner and Edmonds, because they can return relative cheaply. Although Arizona will have several holes to addre s on defense, too, they need to resettheir offensive weapons to align them better
Robel Garcia Jersey with Murray.Having Hopkins again will help, and so will better usage of dynamic second-round pick Rondale Moore. But the Cardinals would help Murray take a big leap with a truedeep speed threat. Kirk, now dedicated to the slot, isn't that. Williams and Murray had a nice connection before the former went down with a knee injury, and Ertz was a good replacement security blanket. A more athletic option who can stretch the middle of the field should be welcome.Arizona is perceived as a prolific, explosive and aggre sive offense under Kingsbury, but it needs to have more sources of big plays. Even though there is creativity, the
Baez El Mago Jersey Cardinals can get into a rut with their short and intermediate pa sing. Murray also needs to embrace his rare quickne s and speed as a runner the way Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen do to take over games at times.Murray's rushing production had a nearly 50 percent dropoff, to the point it became a non-factor. That'sinexplicable for someone with such a high floor in that regard. His succe sor at Oklahoma, Jalen Hurts, was close to Murray's 2020 rushing levels for the Eagles as he compensated for shaky pa sing. Murray is a more dangerous pa ser, like Jackson and Allen, when defenses get too worried about his running.MORE: The Cardinals have been pretty solld at tackle, but they need to upgrade their interior offensive line. Garcia (30), left guard Justin Pugh (31) and center Rodney Hudson (32) are on the downsides of their careers. There are similar aging concerns with right tackle Kelvin Beachum (31).Murray needs a young team around him, like Joe Burrow has with the Bengals. The Cardinals were the oldest team in the NFL by average player age (27.3) going into the season, with 16 players over 30. That increased with the midseason trade for Ertz.General manager Steve Keim did a good job getting enough veteran support to expedite a playoff berth with Murray. Now, the script should be flipped to an aggre sive retool with Murray most in mind. Kingsbury needs to help Murray evolve into a more consistent all-around force, but that can't happen with the current personnel.Given their cap situation, free agency won't be fruitful for the Cardinals. That's OK, because the draft is where they will get younger. Wide receiver, tight end and offensive line should bump higher up the team'sneeds list this year after Arizona prioritized defense in the first two post-Murray drafts, with the exception of Moore.MORE: The good news is the team that beat the Cardinals on Monday and in the division race has a capped future as an "all-in"
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The sports attendance jokes grew old long ago. Bad team suspects or even announces no fans are allowed to attend its games as a COVID-19 precaution, andthe social media world rushes to the same punch line.
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Keith Hernandez Jersey to take over FedExField for season openerNo fans in Washington this year John Clark (@JClarkNBCS) Thats one tradition that isnt changing! RedWolves Fan (@numberthirty6) How does this differ from previous recent seasons? Mr AJ B (@Affypop) Finally, a good fan experience at FedEx Field. Cjmullysr (@mullinsnova) The Washington Football Team says there will not be spectators at games to start the season, but they will have loudspeakers pipe in the sounds of fans booing. Fake Dispatch (@Fake_Dispatch) Have obtained this rendering showing what FedEx Field might look like without fans.
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When Tom Brady's Buccaneers travel to play Aaron Rodgers' Packers (-3.5, 51 o/u)in Sunday's NFC championship game (3:05 p.m. ET, Fox), it doesn't get more marquee than that.MORE: Brady isplaying in his 14th conference title game after making 13 such AFC appearances with the Patriots. He is looking for a shot at his seventh Super Bowl ring in Super Bowl 55. Meanwhile, Rodgers is playing at home with a Super Bowl on the line for the first time in Lambeau Field, 10 years after he led the Packers on a succe sful Super Bowl 45 run as an NFC wild-card team.The Bucs are also trying to get the glory as a wild card. The Packers were the best team record-wise wire-to-wire in the NFC with the league's highest-scoring offense that should return Rodgers to NFL MVP status.Who will win this battle of No. 12s, No. 1 seed
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Weather is always the "forgotten factor" in fantasy football. We spend hours obse sing over start 'em, sit 'em decisions and waiver wire pickups, but then wemightsee a weather report at the last minute and barely pay attention to it. Of course,
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The Bengals are Super Bowl-bound.No matter how strange that sentence may be to read, it's the truth. To that end, the Bengals won't have the luxury of picking high like they have the last two seasons, but it's all good in Cincinnati, especially with their first Super Bowl appearance in over three decades on the horizon.But, even with the meteoric rise of Joe Burrow, Cincinnati still has big-time needs. It's apparent that they need big-time help up front to protect Burrow, even if "Joe Shiesty" was more "Joe Superman"throughout his playoff run.On the other side, the Chiefs have some things to figure out:
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New York Mets Jersey Eagles (via IND)*9-817Los Angeles Chargers*9-818New Orleans Saints*9-819Philadelphia Eagles*9-820Pittsburgh Steelers*9-7-121New England Patriots*10-722Las Vegas Raiders*10-723Arizona Cardinals*11-624Dallas Cowboys*12-525Buffalo Bills*11-626Tenne see Titans*12-527Tampa Bay Buccaneers*13-428Green Bay Packers*13-429Miami Dolphins (via SF)*12-530Kansas City Chiefs*12-5* Draft position clinched Notes: The Eagles hold three
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Tyler Lockett suffered a knee injury last week and was given the dreaded "questionable" tag ahead of a key Thursday Night Football matchup with the Cardinals in Week 11. Lockett's status appears to be truly up in the air, and he may well be a game-time decision for
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Kurt Suzuki Jersey | Is Tyler Lockett playing Thursday night?UPDATE:Lockett is .Lockett (knee) is officially listed as "questionable" for the Seahawks' Thursday nightgame against the Cardinals. Lockett was a non-participant at practice each day for the Seahawks, but there seems to be some optimism surrounding his status.According to , Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said that Lockett "looked fine" and that he expects him to play against
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Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores alleging racially discriminatory hiring practices throughout the NFL. In addition to highlighting the league's inequities in hiring practices, Flores also shed light on several major competitive integrity i sues within the Dolphins organization.According to the lawsuit, Dolphins owner Stephen Ro s offered to pay Brian Flores $100,000 per lo s during the 2019 season in an effort to get the first overall pick in the draft and take future Bengals star Joe Burrow. But that didn't work as Miami went 5-11, including a stretch of 5-4 over their last nine games after starting 0-7.MORE: It was from that moment that Flores alleges he
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Of the many hundreds of men who experienced their first encounters with Jimbo Covert inside a football stadium, I had an experience that ranked among the least punishing but still stands as one of the most intimidating of my career.At the heart of his tenure as a Chicago Bears left tackle, eight seasons that included a Super Bowl triumph, two All-Pro selections, too many pancaked defensive ends to count and, this Saturday, the occasion of his induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Covert stood 6-4 and weighed 277 pounds. I encountered this intimidating figure as an unemployed, aspiring sports journalist who weighed half as much and was armed only with a Bic pen.This is how I described the scene I encountered nearly 38 years ago, for an article in The Pittsburgh Pre s:Jim Covert sat on a tiny, overburdened stool in the visitors locker room at Memorial Stadium, wearing nothing more than shorts to prevent him from a draft and nothing le s than a terrifying scowl to protect him from an invasion of privacy.This was perhaps the worst day of Coverts
Dmitry Orlov Jersey football life, which to that point included first-team All-State honors at Freedom High in Western Pennsylvanias Beaver County, first-team All-America selection as a senior at Pitt in 1982 and selection as the No. 6 overall pick in the 1983 NFL Draft.He was four games into his rookie season when I drew an a signment to write about him, but how we arrived at that moment in Baltimores Memorial Stadium, and why his "no comment" that afternoon was so much more than routine, is rather an involved story.I was close to being a rookie myself that day, a little more than a year removed from earning my Journalism and Communications degree from Point Park University. Id rushed the completion of my senior year to begin a job covering the Pittsburgh Pirates for the Tribune-Review of Greensburg in January 1982. I covered spring training and more than 130 big-league games. And I was a terrible baseball writer. I didnt work hard enough, didnt understand
Andre Burakovsky Jersey the job of developing sources and taking readers inside the game, didnt do the best job of listening to those with more experience. When the T-R needed to lay off some staffers, I was among those let go.After five months of unemployment, an opportunity to join a two-man staff at The Manchester Herald in suburban Hartford developed. My fiance and I postponed our planned May wedding and I moved to Connecticut in April 1983. I was ready to leave in a day. I was barely making enough to eat, mi sed my fiance, mi sed home. I stayed until July then moved back to Pittsburgh, prepared to enter grad school and po sibly to leave the busine s that had been my lifelong dream.It didnt turn out that way. The Pre s sports staff was undergoing ma sive changes. A new editor at the paper, the late Angus McEachran, was revolutionizing everything about the way the paper ran, all the way down to the headline fonts. Several on the sports staff left, by choice or force. The Pre s was
Nathan Walker Jersey literally running out of writers to fill the paper. I'd written some high school basketball articles for the Pre s during my unemployed period, and they must have been pa sable, because the sports editor, the late Ernie DeFilippi, called two weeks after my return to Pittsburgh and said if Id come in, hed find some things for me to do.A little more than a month later, I was ringside in Madison Square Garden as Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini fought Orlando Romero and retained his WBA lightweight title. Ten days after that, I covered a high school football game on a Friday night that bled well into Saturday morning, hopped a plane to Boston after two hours of sleep to cover the No. 12 West Virginia Mountaineers in a game at Boston College, then jetted on Sunday from Logan to BWI for the Bears-Baltimore Colts game. There, my a signment was to gather material for features on head coach Mike Ditka, another Beaver County guy, and Covert.This all was a hell of a ride, but remember, I had no job. I was desperate for the Pre s new a sistant managing editor in the sports department, Ru s Brown, to hire me. There was no choice but to do the best po sible job on the two articles.The Bears lost in overtime that day. Worse, Covert was absolutely wrecked by Colts edge rusher Johnie Cooks so badly Ditka was compelled to bench Covert midway through the third quarter. I knew then my approach to Covert in the locker room would be a challenge. I explained to Covert who I was and that I was there specifically to speak with him. "Not today," he said through a grimace. "I dont have anything to say."Could I have written the article with just that quote from Covert? Today, sure, with 40 years of experience.. But four decades ago, without the security of fulltime employment, I understood The Pre s did not send me all that way to get blown off. But Covert soon erased that concern.He gave me his phone number and told me to call a few days later. I caught him at home one night after practice. We had a delightful conversation."My last two years at Pitt, I hardly ever made a mistake," Covert said then. "I dont read the papers or anything, but Im sure Mike said some things about a signment busts, and I
Brooks Orpik Jersey probably topped the list, But I cant be dragging that in my mind Im ready to play. I just had a bad game."There were few like it afterward. Covert was named to the NFLs All-Decade Team for the 1980s. He was an e sential part of the revered 1985 Bears championship team. He retired after the 1990 season and pursued an extraordinarily succe sful career
Tom Wilson Jersey in the health care busine s, which included a period as president and CEO of The Institute for Transfusion Medicine and a current position as operating partner with Cre sey & Company, a private equity firm focused on health care.Even four decades later, I remembered the scene in the Bears locker room and the lead paragraph I wrote about it vividly, but what Id forgotten was this: When I phoned Covert, he apologized for declining to talk after the game.Thats the man wholl enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame. My original article about our encounter and his with Cooks appeared in The Pittsburgh Pre s on Sunday, Oct. 2, 1983. That was the day after my wedding, while my wife and I took just a two-day honeymoon to New York City because every day I wasnt at the Pre s was a mi sed opportunity. Exactly a month after I met Covert in that chilly Bears locker room, after hed rescued that article and maybe my career with his grace, Ru s and Ernie called me into the office and offered a fulltime job.
